Manufacture of corset-stays



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MAN'UPAGTURE 0F CORSET STAYS.

No. 316,034. Patented Apr. 221, 1885.

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MANUFACTURE O F CO RSET-STYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,034, dated April 21l 1885.

Application tiled rNovember 18, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Max W. HnNiUs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Corset-Stays; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled `in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to the manufacture of corset-stays, and has for its object to produce a system or method of blanking out both single and double stays from a strip of metal by successive single operations and without waste of metal, except what may result from rounding the ends of the double stays. Double stays of the class herein shown-that is, two stays joined together at one place only-are not of my invention, but form the subj ect-matter of a pending application filed October23, 1884, Serial No. 146,240.

Heretofore this class of stays has been made by securing two independent stays together by riveting a cross-piece thereto, or in any suitable manner. rlhey have not been made by blanking out from a single strip of metal, for the reason that the short strips of metal cut out between the two parts ofthe stay and extending from the cross-piece to the ends, respectvely, were of no use in the manufacture of corsets, and thus became of no value except as scrap metal.

In orderto obviate the above objections and to be enabled to blank out double and single stays without loss of material, I have devised the system or method of cutting the metal which Iwill now proceed to describe,and then specifically point out in the claims. It will of course be understood that the double stays, while they may be used in all parts of the corset, are more especially adapted for use at the back of the corset as lacing-stays, and that the single stays may be used in all parts of the corset as occasion may require, either style being adapted for use in all classes of corsets, whether woven or stitched.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming part of this specication, Figure lis a plan View illustrating the manner of blankof separating each double stay when cornpleted. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a slightly modified form of cross-piece, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the single stays which are blanked out between the double stays. I

A indicates the strip as fed to the press; B, double stays having cross-pieces C, and D one of the single stays. rIhe strip of metal fed to the press is just the width of the double stays. The style of press and the particular manner of feeding the strip of metal and of cutting it forni-no part of my presentinvention, which simply relates to the method of cutting single and double stays at the same time,with out regard to the mechanism by which the cutting is accomplished. The cutting-die is so shaped as to blank out the single stay D, and preferably at the same time to separate a completed double stay from the strip, rounding the ends of both the completed and the incompleted double stays, as indicated at E. In starting with a new strip of metal the strip would iirst be fed in until the end passed under the cutting portion at the center of the die. The first blow of the die half nishes the rst double stay, the portion blanked out from the center being waste metal. 'Ihe second blow of the die, the strip of metal having been properly fed forward, blanks out the first single stay, D, completes the first double stay and separates it from the strip of metal, as indicated at E, at the same time forming the first half of the second double stay and rounding the ends of both double stays. The third blow ofthe die blanks out the second single stay, completes the second double stay, and forms half of the third double stay, and so on, each blow of the die blanking out a single stay,com pleting and det-aching a double stay, and half forming another double stay. It is of course not essential that the cross-pieces of the double stays should be at the center thereof. Vhen it is desired that the cross-pieces should not be at the center, a die may be usedhavng the cutter for detaching the completed stays placed in proper position, the long ends of one double stay following the short ends of the next double stay, and so on; or, if preferred, the blanking out of the single stays and the separation of the double stays may be accomplished by ing out the central piece or single stay and separate operations. I preferably, however,

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consisting, first, in feeding -to the press a strip of metal the width of a double stay; secondly, 15

in blanking out a. single stay between the two claimparts of the last half of one double stay and 5 l. The method of forming single and double the two parts of the first half of the next corset-stays at a single operatiomwhich condouble stay; and, thirdly, in separating the sists in blanking out a single stay between the completed double stay from the strip of metal. 2o two sides of the last half of one double stay ln testimony whereof I affix my signature in and the two sides of the first half of the next presence of two witnesses.

blank out the single stay and detach the completed double stay at the same operation.

Having thus described my invention, I

1o double stay, and at the same time separating MAX W. HENIUS.

the completed double stay from the strip. Witnesses: y 2. Theherein-deseribed improvement in the A. M. WOOsTER,

lmt `of manufacturing corset-stays, the same WM. A. JONES. 

